Hi,
A non-technical Fedora desktop user chooses X language (say Hindi) while logging in assuming that he will get everything working in Hindi (e.g. technically fonts, input methods, rendering, localized applications like Firefox, Openoffice, evolution, thunderbird, etc working). After logging in, he realize that most of the things are not working. e.g. Openoffice is entirely in English, Inputting (in Hindi) is not working, applications like gedit, nautilus showing square boxes instead of Hindi text. After this experience, person would definitely ask a question, why there is an option to choose a language even if there is no support for that language enabled?
So, to answer that question,
1. to all: Should we change the list of languages dynamically from GDM login screen to satisfy the end users' (local language users') needs? 2. to GDM maintainers: Is it possible to change the list of languages dynamically (based on the language-supports installed) on the GDM login screen?
Thanks!
Le Ven 5 juin 2009 15:06, Ankitkumar Rameshchandra Patel a écrit :
applications like gedit, nautilus showing square boxes instead of Hindi text.
Actually, in F11 they'll show a nice popup suggesting to look for and autoinstall hindi fonts. So this part is already fixed (maybe not in all apps but in pango-based apps at least)
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le Ven 5 juin 2009 15:06, Ankitkumar Rameshchandra Patel a écrit :
applications like gedit, nautilus showing square boxes instead of Hindi text.
Actually, in F11 they'll show a nice popup suggesting to look for and autoinstall hindi fonts. So this part is already fixed (maybe not in all apps but in pango-based apps at least)
That's good to know. Thanks Nicolas.
But, it's not only the matter of fonts, rather language support which includes - fonts, input method (and maps), spell checker, openoffice langpack, kde langpack and language packs for various other applications.
So, how are we going to solve those things?